Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoWindows 8, maybe. But Windows 8.1 was awesome. The optimization, it ran perfectly on a potato.
Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoWindows 8, maybe. But Windows 8.1 was awesome. The optimization, it ran perfectly on a potato.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Yep. I get they wanted to pretend 8 wasn't a complete bust, hence the 8.1 nonsense, but they should have called it Windows 9 and been honest about it. They certainly acknowledged it by the time 10 came around.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing got named “Windows 9” because Microsoft feared compatibility issues with janky programs looking for the first set of characters in “Windows 95” or “Windows 98.”
Later this was changed by the marketing department to some blather about “wanting consumers to perceive a clean break from the previous version.” But then, Microsoft also claimed Windows 10 would be the Last Windows, and it would just have feature updates built on top of it forever as a service.
bamboo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I think when Microsoft said Windows 10 was the last version, they were serious about it. And they kept it up for a pretty long time too. I think windows 11 happened only because some marketing person wanted to be able to pitch a new version, and a UX refresh was already being implemented.